The Stedman Doubles Project

Project Description

Primary Objective:
To study the learning process for a really hard method.

Activity

• None. Project on hold.

Activity

• 4 courses rung, all pairs for maintenance of learning.

Failures:

• Not yet got anyone enthused enough to join the project.
• Project on hold as of end Feb 2019.

Activity

• 21 courses on 1-2, maintenance of learning.
• 43 started courses on 3-4, inconsistent until 17th January
• Learning published on 1st Feb

Failures:

• Not yet got anyone enthused enough to join the project.

Activity

• Project Objectives defined.
• Printed the double blue lines
• Memorised 1-2
• Rang 5-6 21 times to get the method by blue line
• Memorised 1-2 again in more detail
• Rang 5-6 21 times to get the method by blue line (Abel)
• Rang 1-2 20 times to ring first plain course to the end
• Rang 1-2 a further 46 times before I could reliably ring a course at 2h 40 mins speed
• Rang 1-2 a further 93 times before I could reliably ring a course at 2h 10 mins speed

Failures:

• None, unless you count the fire-ups, and it took a lot longer than I expected
• Not yet completed a course on 3-4

Learning:

• Starting in the middle of a quick six screws up almost everything
• You have to learn how to cross from six to six as well as learning the work inside the six
• The quick sections (Tuesday / Thursday) are more trouble than Mon / Wed / Fri
• The dodging is a real killer for a Bob Minor ringer, I learned to tackle it as 545454 rather than Double Dodge 4-5 down.
• I began to recognise the tune.
• Reciting is not the same as knowing.
• Firing out in the last third is frustrating.

Project Objectives

Period: 22nd May 2018 - 31st May, 2018.

Primary project objective:

• Study the learning process for a really hard method.

Secondary project objectives:

• Ring a peal of Stedman Doubles.
• Create documentation for others to use.
• Document the pitfalls

Project Approach

Suck it and see!
Stedman is so different from anything I have ever rung on handbells that all I have to go on is the one small piece of internet information suggesting learning the sixes by days of the week. I might even decide to digress into Erin.